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Webb about this deal. >> i am very concerned about any agreement that would acquiesce to the idea that iran would eventually acquire nuclear weapons. we want better relations with iran. i've said this many times over the years. but since the iraq war with the fallout of the iraq war and arab spring iran is more active in the region and we don't want to send the wrong signal we are acquiescing to the greater power that iran has. so i don't see that there's a hurry here with respect to the agreement with iran. >> if there is a deal is that something that hillary has to worry about defending in a...

The prime minister himself. it was not considered he would talk to him. >> you don't? >> i don't think so. when you start acquiescing to demands like that, it said clearly there was no "escape plan" intended by this individual. that this was going to be a suicide mission. again he never asked for any kind of transportation from what we know at least of what knowledge i have now. no demands for prisoner releases, anything like that. it seemed it was a side mission from the start which added to the gravity of the situation on the law enforcement front. and compressed the lime tine significantly....

The u.s. perspective? >> if the release of jonathan pollard would induce the prime minister of israel to fundamentally change positions on jerusalem borders, security and refugees -- >> so-called final status issues. >> well, absolutely. wolf, it won't. and you remember in the fall of 2010, the administration, in order to secure a two-month extension of the settlements freeze, wouldn't etch give the israelis f-35s and a lot of other military equipment for a two-month extension. this, wolf, is a tactic in search of a stratstrategy. pollard is like a fallen soldier to them. they abandoned him. a...

Thanksgiving. we can carve that board into multiple pieces. >> that was president obama earlier this week, essentially a acquiescing to republican demands. then he and the first lady went to the national mall to respond to activists tagging for the lack of movement on immigration reform. the president reiterated his confidence that the reform will happen >> the fast for families started on november 12th and several of the protesters have had nothing but water since then. the senate bill that would carve out a way for 11 million or so immigrants without documentation to become american citizens...

But the united states did have some input. >> right. >> what role did the united states play in creating this post-ottoman middle east? >> well, they had an opportunity, that's probably a better way to put it, of heading off the carving of the partition of the middle east between the british and the french. woodrow wilson at the paris peace conference famously came with the idea that people had the right to self-determination and it was going to be a continuation of the imperial a era. however, he ended up acquiescing to the british and french carving up the region. >> did western control -- d...